Possess the Power of Performance !

Next generation software demands hardware that is born from the enthusiasm embedded in every gamer's fantasy and the Sapphire X1950 XTX delivers the pixel pounding muscle to answer that demand. The Sapphire RADEON® X1950™ series provides the ultimate in performance to push tomorrows gaming titles as well as offers accelerated support for the eagerly anticipated and graphically intensive Windows Vista™ 3D environment. The very definition of awe-inspiring graphics can be found within the advanced feature set of the X1950 Family and when driven by the worlds fastest GPU and 512MB of GDDR4 memory the end result is nothing short of spectacular. Possess the power to perform at a level never before thought possible with the Sapphire RADEON® X1950 XTX !

RADEON™ X1950 XTX core
512MB GDDR4
DirectX 9.0 / OpenGL Support
Avivo™ video and display technology
PCI Express x16
Dual DVI
 
 
SAPPHIRE X1950 XTX
 
Features
  • 384 million transistors on 90nm
  • fabrication process
  • Up to 48 pixel shader processors
  • 8 vertex shader processors
  • 256-bit 8-channel GDDR4
  • memory interface
  • Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
Ring Bus Memory Controller
  • Up to 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads
  • Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs
  • Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test
  • Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1)
  • Fast Z-Buffer Clear
  • Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine
  • Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
  • Full speed 128-bit floating point processing for all shader operations
  • Up to 512 simultaneous pixel threads
  • Dedicated branch execution units for high performance dynamic branching and flow control
  • Dedicated texture address units for improved efficiency
  • 3Dc+ texture compression o High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and two-channel data formats
  • High quality 2:1 compression for luminance maps and single-channel data formats
  • Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL®2.0
Advanced Image Quality Features
  • 64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline
    • Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
  • 32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the pipeline
    • Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
  • 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
    • Multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sparse sample patterns, and centroid sampling
    • New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and Quality modes
    • Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode
    • Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
  • 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
    • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
    • Adaptive algorithm with Performance and Quality options
  • High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k)
Avivo Video and Display Platform
  • High performance programmable video processor
    • Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding and transcoding
    • DXVA support
    • De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
    • Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and color space conversion
    • Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
    • 3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion)
  • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
  • HDR tone mapping acceleration
    • Maps any input format to 10 bit per channel output
  • Flexible display support
    • Dual integrated dual-link DVI transmitters
      • DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready*
    • Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
    • 16 bit per channel floating point HDR and 10 bit per channel DVI output
    • Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion (10 bits per color)
    • Complete, independent color controls and video overlays for each display
    • High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all outputs
    • Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
    • Xilleon TV encoder for high quality analog output
    • YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
    • Spatial/temporal dithering enables 10-bit color quality on 8-bit and 6-bit displays
    • Fast, glitch-free mode switching
    • VGA mode support on all outputs
    • Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
  • Compatible with ATI TV/Video encoder products, including Theater 550
 
CrossFireâ'žÂ¢
  • Multi-GPU technology
    Four modes of operation:
    • Alternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance)
    • Supertiling (optimal load-balancing)
    • Scissor (compatibility)
    • Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality)

*Specifications are subject to change without notice and may vary depending upon product sku*


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  • RADEON™ X1950 XTX core (650MHz)
  • 512MB GDDR4 onboard memory (1550MHz)
  • 48 pixel shader processors
  • 256-bit Memory Bus
  • PCI Express x16
  • Pixel Shader Version 3.0
  • Video Acceleration of: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264
  • Dual DVI
  • Tv-Out
  • Full Version - Da Vinci Code
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    3 AWARDS 4


    4th in Sub-£150 GFX cards

    Briefly Hits new heights of ecstasy .. down to the GDDR4 Memory

    PC Advisor July p178


    Editors Choice

    "What makes this card such a great performer? It's the GDDR4 memory, plain and simple. Running at a stock speed of 1Ghz, and even faster with some overclocking, this card is able to suck up all the data and spit out a beautiful picture and smooth graphics. "

    Virtual-Hideout.net


    Extreme Gamers

    "...the game play on the X1950XTX was flawless, even though I had the settings maxed out in all the games I played for the benchmarks. F.E.A.R. put the fear in me when I was playing it; the detail and smoothness of the game was fantastic. I can't mention enough that GDDR4 is the key to why this card does so well."

    Virtual-Hideout.net


    8.5 out of 10

    "Pricing-wise, this card is right on the money and actually a good value.."

    BootDaily.com